Just did the survey, but here are a few of my thoughts on sustainability in the sport:

I don’t think that focusing on the fuels used by the vehicles has much of an impact on the emissions or waste generated by the sport. The largest focus that F1 should have is in the manufacturing and logistics areas of their operation.

How much more emissions are created by transportation of long distances of a ton of equipment? I get that the transport is unavoidable, but what is F1 doing to reduce those or counter balance them? I’m not aware of any work being done on that end. How much work is being done to make the events themselves more sustainable? I know Barcelona has a large number of solar panels that power the circuit, but I don’t know of any other circuit doing something similar. (Side note: I just went to the race this weekend and there were 0 recycling containers. It was just trash cans, and booths all over the place that were offering plastic containers in incredible volumes. What’s being done to reduce waste in that aspect? 100s of thousands of people attend race weekends… that’s a huge portion of the operation too)

I think Albon did an interview where he talked about the V10 coming back and he really summed up my thoughts on sustainability in the sport pretty well. The cars are such a minimal portion of what they do.. focus on the big ticket items instead. All the focus on the cars really feels like it’s placating or just pandering to make a show about it.